Table 4.
Anaemia status of the study participants by gender, age groups and strata
| Variable | Non anaemic | Anaemia | Total n |
P-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n (%) | Mild, n (%) |
Moderate n (%) |
Severe n (%) |
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| Sex | ||||||
| Male | 199 (72.4) | 44 (16.0) | 28 (10.1) | 4 (1.50) | 275 (48.7) | 0.25 |
| Female | 231 (79.7) | 34 (11.7) | 22 (7.6) | 3 (1.03) | 290 (51.3) | |
| Age groups (years) | ||||||
| 0.5–4 | 174 (73.4) | 43 (18.1) | 17 (7.2) | 3 (1.3) | 237 (42.0) | 0.22 |
| 5–11 | 153 (76.9) | 19 (9.6) | 23 (11.5) | 4 (2.0) | 199 (35.2) | |
| 12–14 | 52 (81.3) | 7 (10.9) | 5 (7.8) | 0 (0.0) | 64 (11.3) | |
| 15–19 | 51 (78.5) | 9 (13.9) | 5 (7.6) | 0 (0.0) | 61 (11.5) | |
| Strata | ||||||
| Highland village | 217 (77.5) | 38 (13.6) | 22 (7.9) | 3 (1.0) | 280 (49.7) | 0.82 |
| Lowland village | 213 (74.7) | 40 (14.0) | 28 (9.8) | 4 (1.4) | 285 (50.3) | |
| Total | 430 (76.1) | 78 (13.8) | 50 (8.9) | 7 (1.2) | 565 (100) | |
Haemoglobin level < 7.0 g/dL = severe anaemia, between 7.0 and 9.9 g/dL = moderate anaemia, between 10.0 and 10.9 g/dL = mild anaemia and Hb ≥ 11 g/dL = non-anaemic. The age groups presented here are as per WHO haemoglobin concentrations for the diagnosis of anaemia and assessment of severity [17]